Deadline reports today that Warner Bros. has bought the script for a possible seven movie fantasy adventure franchise ARABIAN NIGHTS! Also known as One Thousand and One Stories, it is a well known collection of vivid folk tales from Ancient Arabia, Persian, Egypt. The frame of all other stories is based on Persian king who discovers that both his wife and his brother's wife have been unfaithful and has them executed. For several years, he starts marrying young virgins, executing them the next morning before they can betray him. When the king's "vizier," whose duty it is to find these virgins, cannot find them any more, the vizier's daughter offers herself as the next bride, but before he can execute her, she tells him a story which she does not conclude. The king postpones the execution so he can hear the end, but every time she ends a story, she starts a new one. This forces the king to keep postponing the execution for one thousand and one nights as she keeps telling new tales. Sinbad, Aladdin and Ali Baba are all characters from the stories of beautiful Scheherazade.

FIRST 'ANT-MAN' POSTER WITH

PAUL RUDD & MICHAEL DOUGLAS In one of today's photo treats, you can see the first poster for
ANT-MAN which will crawl into cinemas next July starring Paul Rudd,
Michael Douglas and Patrick Wilson. Armed with the astonishing ability
to shrink in scale but increase in strength, con-man Scott Lang must
embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym, protect the
secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of
towering threats. Against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Pym and
Lang must plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.

FX'S COMEDY SERIES WITH

KELSEY GRAMMER AND MARTIN LAWRENCE AS 'PARTNERS'

This summer is bringing us a new comedy series at FX. Starting August 4th it will see Kelsey Grammer and Martin Lawrence as unlikely PARTNERS. Also starring Telma Hopkins, Rory O’Malley, McKaley Miller, Edi Patterson and Danièle Watts, the series follows Grammer and Lawrence as two Chicago lawyers from very different backgrounds who unexpectedly meet in court as they each face a personal crisis. Brought together by fate and greed, they develop a business and friendship, forcing each other to find the balance between the ethical and the unscrupulous in both their professional and personal lives.

THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES

FIRST LOOK AT KING THRANDUIL!

And check out a new image of Lee Pace as Elven King Thranduil in THE HOBBIT THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES! The first teaser should be here this weekend!

My blog had it's third birthday last month. Out of all the people that I began that blog with, you is the only one who has never taken me for granted. Some folks are about to be in for a rather rude awakening :)